Call for Papers

The annual International Web Rule Symposium (RuleML) is the leading international event in the field of rules and their applications. RuleML 2014, the eighth event in this series, will be held in conjunction with ECAI 2014, the 21st European Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Prague, Czech Republic. RuleML 2014 will host: the 8th International Rule Challenge, the 4th RuleML Doctoral Consortium, the Human Language Technology, the Learning (Business) Rules from Data, and the Legal Rules and Norms tracks, as well as the OASIS Legal RuleML Meeting.

Objectives

RuleML 2014 will stimulate cooperation and interoperability between research and business in a community of researchers and practitioners who are interested in the theory and applications of rules. The symposium's areas of research and development have helped drive the rapid progress in technologies for practical rule and event processing. As a result, RuleML 2014 will be an exciting venue for the exchange of new ideas and experiences on issues related to engineering, management, integration, interoperability of rule systems, and interchange of rules in distributed enterprise, intranets, and open distributed environments. Industry practitioners, rule-system providers, users of rules, technical experts and developers, and researchers who are exploring foundational issues, developing systems and applications, or using rule-based systems are invited to share ideas, results, and experiences.

Topics

We invite high-quality submissions related (but not limited) to the following topics:

RuleML Special tracks

Awards

At a special session of RuleML 2014, we will present the following awards:

RuleML Best Paper and Runner-up Awards

Rule Challenge Best System and Runner-up Awards

RuleML 2014 Rulebase Competition Award

Doctoral Consortium Best Paper and Runner-up Award

Student Travel Support

Student Travel Support of EUR 500 will be provided for the two best student (first author) submissions. For a paper to be considered, its first author must be a student. Proof of studentship will be required at time of registration. More detailed information on how to apply will be sent to authors of accepted papers through Easychair.

Conference Chair

Leora Morgenstern (Leidos, USA)

Program Chairs

Antonis Bikakis (University College London, UK)

Paul Fodor (Stony Brook University, USA)

Dumitru Roman (SINTEF / University of Oslo, Norway)

Important Dates

Extended Abstract submission:

April 14, 2014

Extended Paper submission:

April 22, 2014

Notification:

May 20, 2014

Camera ready:

June 6, 2014

RuleML 2014 dates:

August 18-20, 2014

Submission guidelines

Papers must be original contributions written in English and must be submitted at EasyChair as:

Full Papers (15 pages in the proceedings)

Short Papers (8 pages in the proceedings)

Please upload all submissions in LNCS format. To ensure high quality, submitted papers will be carefully peer-reviewed by 3 PC members based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition. Selected papers will be published in book form in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. The RuleML2014 special tracks will be published in the same book.
Short papers may contain 1 extra page maximum for which there is a charge of US$200, while for long papers you are allowed 2 extra pages maximum for EACH of which there is a charge of US$200. Overpage charges must be paid to the following Paypal account: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
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A selection of the best papers from all tracks will be invited to be revised and extended for the post-conference publication in a Special Issue of TPLP (Theory and Practice of Logic Programming).